AMERICAS
On October 2, 1968, Mexican army and police forces opened fire on 5,000 students and workers at an anti-government protest in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district. Estimates of the dead ran into the hundreds. Forty years later, no one has faced trial for the killings, and the full truth of the Tlatelolco massacre -- like many other crimes by the Mexican state -- has yet to be told. In Mexico, justice remains unfinished business.
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CANADA TRC
Canada has formally recognized that Aboriginal peoples suffered grave abuses in the Indian Residential Schools (IRS) system, and that the system itself was a product of an unacceptable belief in cultural superiority. However, this recognition was made without clear acknowledgment of the criminal nature of those acts. The abuses against Aboriginal communities and individual children are likely to remain unaddressed until the vast majority of Canadians have an opportunity to hear about them in a credible, exhaustive investigation...
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PUBLICATIONS
This year has seen the publication of four critically acclaimed books from members of ICTJ’s Board of Directors: Alex Boraine’s A Life in Transition; David Hamburg’s Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps Toward Early Detection and Effective Action; Samantha Power’s Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World; and Ted Sorensen’s Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History.
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PUBLICATION LAUNCH
ICTJ is launching a series of concise, up-to-date fact sheets on transitional justice issues around the world. The latest of these publications address truth commissions, in particular the Canadian truth and reconciliation commission, which officially began its work in June 2008...
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE FUTURE
Two new horizons of human rights protection have emerged during the first 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the prevention of mass atrocities, and the development of transitional justice. ICTJ President Juan E. Méndez spoke at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting about the tasks ahead for the international human rights movement...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
NEW YORK/CAPE TOWN - The new power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe is a step forward for the country, but a durable peace will require justice for victims of political violence and accountability for perpetrators, the International Center for Transitional Justice said...
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